Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

About

Type: Private nonprofit, 4-year
Location: Rochester, New York
Website: www.crcds.edu

This collegeRanked colleges nearby

Setting: Midsize city
Nearest major city: In Rochester
Nearest international airport: Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC), about 5 mi

Rochester, New York

Academic calendar: Semester
Religious affiliation: Not applicable
President: Dr. Angela D. Sims (President)
Phone: 5852711320
City: Rochester, New York
Address: 20 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604

Degrees & Majors

Graduates in 2025 (first major)

Master's70 international (0.0%)

Doctoral20 international (0.0%)

Popular graduate programs

Divinity/Ministry · Master's6 (0% international)
Religion/Religious Studies · Master's1 (0% international)

All majors, graduates and earnings IPEDS · College Scorecard

*Depends on whether majors have graduates in 2025 or not, Yes / No
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Theology has 6 graduates in 2025
Major	Graduate Salary	Master	Doctor
Divinity/Ministry.	$43,670

Philosophy has 3 graduates in 2025
Major	Graduate Salary	Master	Doctor
Religion/Religious Studies.	-

Students

78 students in 2025

Graduate students 78

International Students

International share over the last 10 years · gray line: median of all 235 private faith-related institutions in the U.S.

Graduate students3.8%

3 in 2025 · 0.0% in 2016

2016Peer median 3.2%2025

Cost

Finances · fiscal year 2024

Revenue$767K

Gifts and private grants

$480K62.7%

Tuition and fees

$286K37.3%

Investment return

-$2.1M-272.4%

Other

$2.1M272.4%

Expenses$2.8M

Instruction

$1.1M40.3%

Institutional support

$907K32.3%

Student services

$770K27.4%

Average faculty salary · 2025 (9-month equivalent)

Dark gray ticks: median pay for the same rank at all 235 private faith-related institutions in the U.S.

All faculty

$52,239peers $51,151

Professor

$47,438peers $65,885

Assistant professor

$57,041peers $57,312

Campus Life

Athletics and varsity athletes NCAA · EADA

No athlete data available for 2025.

No athlete data available for 2024.

No athlete data available for 2023.

Nearby & Safety

Ranked colleges nearby

Campus safety · incidents per 1,000 students

0.0 2016

0.0 2017

0.0 2018

0.0 2019

0.0 2020

0.0 2021

0.0 2022

0.0 2023

15.9 2024

0.0 2025

Peer median 0.0 · all 235 private faith-related institutions in the U.S.

Incidents, 2023–2025

Motor vehicle theft

1

From the Clery Act campus safety reports schools file, covering on-campus, non-campus and public property.

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School include Walter Rauschenbusch (Baptist theologian, key Social Gospel figure), Howard Thurman (Theologian, educator and civil rights leader) and David Crockett Graham (Baptist missionary and anthropologist in Sichuan).

Walter Rauschenbusch 1861–1918

Baptist theologian, key Social Gospel figure
Howard Thurman 1899–1981

Theologian, educator and civil rights leader

Also attended: Morehouse College
David Crockett Graham 1884–1961

Baptist missionary and anthropologist in Sichuan

Also attended: University of Chicago, Whitman College
William Cleaver Wilkinson 1833–1920

Baptist preacher, theology professor and writer
Charles Augustus Strong 1862–1940

Philosopher and psychologist

Also attended: Harvard University, University of Rochester

Father: Augustus Hopkins Strong (Yale University, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School)
Henry Kirke Porter 1840–1921

Businessman and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania

Also attended: Brown University
Augustus Hopkins Strong 1836–1921

Baptist minister and theologian

Also attended: Yale University

Child: Charles Augustus Strong (Harvard University, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School)
George Ripley Bliss 1816–1893

Cleric; twice president of Bucknell University

Also attended: Hamilton College

Child: Tasker H. Bliss (The United States Military Academy at West Point)
Lemuel Moss 1829–1904

Sixth president of Indiana University

Attended until 1860

Also attended: University of Rochester

More alumni (11, by field)

Politics and law

Channing E. Phillips 1928–1987

Minister and civil rights leader

Also attended: Drew University, Virginia Union University
Lorraine K. Potter 1946–

Former Air Force Chief of Chaplains

Also attended: Central Michigan University
Joseph Neal 1950–2017

South Carolina state representative

Also attended: Benedict College
Wyatt Tee Walker 1929–2018

Pastor and civil rights leader, King's chief of staff

Also attended: Virginia Union University

Science and academia

James E. Cheek 1932–2010

President of Howard University from 1968 to 1989

Master of Divinity

Also attended: Drew University, Shaw University
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson 1890–1976

First African-American president of Howard University

Bachelor of Divinity

Also attended: Howard University, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College
Ernest DeWitt Burton 1856–1925

Biblical scholar and third president of University of Chicago

Also attended: Denison University
Henry Clay Vedder 1853–1935

Baptist church historian and theologian

Also attended: University of Rochester

Other fields

Wayland Hoyt 1838–1910

Baptist minister and author
Marjorie Matthews 1916–1986

First woman bishop of the United Methodist Church

Also attended: Florida State University, Central Michigan University
James A. Forbes 1935–

Senior Minister Emeritus of Riverside Church

Also attended: Howard University, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.

References and Data Sources

Data from IPEDS (U.S. Department of Education), U.S. News, THE, QS, ARWU and Clery Act campus safety reports. Data insights are written by the Forward Pathway data team from public data.